英语单词 | slender |
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英美音标 | 英 ['slendə(r)] 美 ['slendər] |
中文释义 | adj.细长的;苗条的;微薄的;少量的 |
英语例句 | (1) It was a long, slender stick of vivid yellow. (2) She was slender and had long dark hair. (3) The daughter was to have but a slender provision. (4) A slender smile still flickered across her face. (5) A slender hope still flickered within him. |
中文例句 | (1) 那是一根鲜黄色的又细又长的粉笔。 (2) 她身材苗条,有一头长长的黑发。 (3) 女儿只能得到一份菲薄的嫁妆。 (4) 她脸上闪过一丝微笑。 (5) 他心中仍闪出一线希望。 |
vocabulary简明 | Something slender is slight, or skinny. A young colt is slender compared to the full grown horse it will grow into. |
vocabulary扩展 | Slender can be used in both positive and negative ways. If someone tells you you have a slender figure, you'll probably be happy, unless you're going for muscle-mass. A slender portion of potatoes will not cheer a hungry growing boy. If you don't know much about something, you can say your knowledge of it is slender. And if you become an artist, get used to living on a slender budget. Now that's a nice way to put it. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]苗条的;纤细的;修长的 A slender person is attractively thin and graceful. [approval] [WRITTEN 笔语]
2 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]微弱的;薄弱的;不足的;不充分的 You can use slender to describe a situation which exists but only to a very small degree. [usu ADJ n] [WRITTEN 笔语]
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